Jesse McCartney is back with new music and is surprised at the response from fans!

The 30-year-old singer and actor didn’t expect the reactions he got after releasing his new song “Better With You” after four years away from the music scene.

“After such a long break, I thought maybe it might be a little harder to get their attention with the new music, but they proved me wrong,” Jesse told Tremblay magazine. “They’ve made it very clear that they’ve been waiting all along.”

“My focus is to introduce people to that growth, even if they only know me from the Beautiful Soul days. As long as I can reach them, I feel pretty confident that the new music will meaningfully connect,” he added.

“The most humbling and rewarding part is the fact that it has been nearly four years since my last release and before ‘Better With You’ even came out, the fans were singing every word of the song at the live shows,” he continued.

“Danielle Campbell is just lovely in this video,” Jesse says of his video co-star. “She’s an incredible actress.”

“I knew I needed an actor for this video because we were attempting to shoot over a two day period and made it seem like we were in a five year relationship; and that can be super uncomfortable if you’ve never met someone before and you’re working together in such a close environment.”

Jesse adds, “This could’ve easily been a slice of cheese…but we wanted to incorporate things that made the relationships authentic.”